US & Italian Navies Conduct Bilateral Operations
The U.S. Navy and Italian Navy convened to conduct bilateral operations in the Philippine Sea in support of a free and open Indo-Pacific, Aug. 18-21. Participants included the U.S. Navy…
Exercise Pitch Black 2024 Takes Off
Australia’s biggest international air combat training activity, Exercise Pitch Black, will take to the skies over the Northern Territory from 12 July to 2 August. With approximately 140 aircraft and…
ITS Cavour and Alpino Arrive in Darwin
The aircraft carrier Cavour, Italian Navy’s flagship and the frigate Alpino will arrive in Darwin, Australia, on July 9th and stay until August 5th to participate in “Pitch Black 2024”…
NATO Tests NRF in Exercise Dynamic Mariner 23
In a remarkable display of international maritime cooperation, naval forces from five Allied nations have gathered in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Italy for the start of Exercise…
Leonardo to Lead Cavour and Horizon Class MOC
Orizzonte Sistemi Navali (OSN), the joint venture owned by Fincantieri and Leonardo with respective stakes of 51% and 49%, has signed, with the Directorate of Naval Armaments of the Secretariat…
US Navy Receives Final JPALS Unit Delivery
The U.S. Navy accepted delivery of the final Joint Precision Approach and Landing Systems (JPALS) unit March 16 marking another on-time or ahead of schedule delivery for increased capability at…
Germany Completes Participation in Neptune Strike 2023.1
Since 2021, NATO has been demonstrating its ability to work from the Mediterranean to the Alliance’s north-eastern flank in the Baltic Sea region. Above all, US aircraft carriers are involved,…
Five Allied Carrier Strike Groups Patrol NATO Waters
Five Allied aircraft carriers will be operating in the Atlantic Ocean and the North and Mediterranean Seas in November, as part of their regularly scheduled activities. This occurrence presents an…